Lee Davidson reports: Several civil rights groups are asking Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff not to use a now-infamous list of 1,300 alleged illegal immigrants to pursue criminal charges against them. More than 100 groups made a similar request last month to federal immigration officials. Now, many of them are asking the same of Shurtleff…
Category: Breaches
Woman files lawsuit over campaign mailing
Matt Thacker reports on a case that demonstrates just how low some people will stoop in a political campaign. Emphasis in the excerpt added by me: The adult daughter of Clark County Commissioner Mike Moore has filed a lawsuit against Citizens for Decency in Government for political mailings sent out prior to the May primary…
FTC drops P2P file sharing probe of LimeWire
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: In a rare break for LimeWire, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week decided to drop its investigation into the embattled software company’s controversial Peer-to-Peer file sharing software. In a letter addressed to LimeWire CEO George Searle , FTC associate director Mary Engle said the agency’s decision came after LimeWire incorporated safeguards…
Blagojevich auction boxes contain client files
Serena Dai of the Associated Press reports: Amidst photos and handwritten letters in auction boxes connected to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich are confidential client-attorney papers from his lawyer days and opposition research on his 2006 gubernatorial race rival Judy Baar Topinka, a Northwestern University librarian said Wednesday. Librarian Jeffrey Garrett bought 18 boxes of files,…